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This week’s guest director Jesse Lawrence is one of the founding members of La Famiglia, a self confessed mobile guerrilla film unit who are well versed in the advantages of keeping crew to an essential core and shooting at speed to produce impressively ambitious and successful films such as Mash Up a dark supernatural urban [...]
Alkin Emirali chairs a Q&A with two of the most respected script executives in the UK Dan MacRae and Sarah Golding, who shed some light on the mysterious alchemy of script development and their roles in the process.
Showlinks
Lighthouse
Working Title Films
UK Film Council
Pan’s Labyrinth
Billy Elliot
Mr Bean’s Holiday
Jacques Tati
Shane Meadows
Mike Leigh
Zenith Entertainment Ltd
Inspector Morse
Screen South’s Miranda Robinson chaired a Q&A with Rachel Robey and Alastair Clark, both producers for Nottingham based Wellington Films. Their debut feature London to Brighton, directed by Paul Andrew Williams, won a host of awards during 2006 including Best Achievement in Production at the British Independent Film Awards and was nominated for both British [...]
Billed as ‘the essential annual meeting of every key player in British documentary production’, I travelled to Oxford to meet up with some old friends, and get inspired.
The Britdoc Festival is associated with The Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation, giving grants and assistance to British independent filmmakers, and offering a collection of world [...]
With two shorts already under her belt (Working for Christmas and Fly), along with several commercials, Candida Scott Knight cast her net wide to find the right script for her next project. “Mercy tells the story of Ben, a young boy who’s bullied at school and neglected at home by his heroine-addict mother. It’s a [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I got to attend the cast and crew screening for Screen South’s 2007 slate of Digital Shorts and crashed the post screening party to find out more about the Digital Shorts experience from the Screen South team and this year’s supported directors.
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Screen South
Screen South Winning Films
UK Film Council Digital [...]
Most of the guests on Directors Notes have had to self finance and hustle to get their projects to screen, but every once in a while a directors’ passion and drive for a project manages to push through the maze of questions and checks to grab a share of the funding pot. Robin King and [...]